I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
HERODOTUSMy men have become women, but the women men.
More Herodotus Quotes
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He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.
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Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
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But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It’s impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
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Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.
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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own
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The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
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History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.
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All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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